Oxytocin's role in this first filial love relationship was quickly overinterpreted to become the hormone of couples and romantic relationships. Comparative biology actually warns us: less than 5% ...

In Christianity, the Bible says that “love covers over a multitude of sins” (1 Pet. 4:8). For those living within a Confucian worldview, filial piety could almost cover all the bad deeds a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In Vigdis Hjorth’s International Booker-longlisted Is Mother Dead, an estranged daughter ruminates on the ...